As Katie Price professed undying love for Celebrity Big Brother winner Alex Reid yesterday, it was a far cry from when she humiliated him two months ago.

Then, the model – after failing to win over the public during her week-long stint on I’m A Celebrity – publicly dumped him on national television.

Now nice-but-dim Alex, 34, is well and truly back in favour.

Yesterday, after a steamy reunion behind locked doors, talk of marriage, and a foreign holiday planned, the Katie and Alex show was back on the road.

After he won 65 per cent of the public vote Katie, 31 was quick to praise her cross-dressing, cage-fighting boyfriend… calling him “the love of my life”.

They spent an intimate 20 minutes in her Channel 4 dressing room.

Later they explained that they had been “catching up” after their four-week separation. Alex clearly hugely enjoyed their “catch-up” and Katie – who fell from favour following her ugly split with Peter Andre – looked triumphant when they finally re-emerged.

“Alex is the love of my life and he knows that,” she said. “I think it is ­absolutely brilliant that he has won.”

Katie seemed doubly pleased. Not only was she going out with the winner – she’d dated runner-up Dane Bowers, too.

“The fact that I’ve been out with Dane as well proves I only go for genuine guys, not s***heads.”

Perma-tanned Alex, basking in his lover’s new-found attention, went on: “The hardest thing for me being in the house was how much I missed Kate. I really missed holding her close to me.

“Even though I know how tight we are, because of what I have had to go through over the last six months, it is hard to use your common sense, you start believing stories you hear.

“When I had all that thinking time in the house I started thinking stuff like, ‘W hen I get out is she still going to want me?’ But I think I knew deep down that she wouldn’t leave me and the fact she is here tonight proves that.”

The muscleman, who cavorted in the BB house naked, talked occasionally about Katie and referred to himself in the third person, added: “I did worry about what she was thinking and was scared some of the stupid things I did might upset her.”

Katie famously ended their ­relationship on air after he flew out to Australia to propose after I’m A Celebrity… because he’d talked about their affair. But she was in a more forgiving mood this time.

She said: “I was never going to dump him, that was ­absolute rubbish.

“There was a reason I dumped him after I’m A Celebrity… and he knows what that is. We got back together after four days and have been together ever since.” Despite refusing to sit next to him in a post-show interview – bizarrely saying she “doesn’t like cameras” – the glamour girl kept a close eye on Alex.

And when asked if he was still planning to propose, Alex – on a tight leash as ever – was less than clear.

“The 10 per cent of Alex Reid I was trying to hold back was to keep me mysterious and that is the part of me you are not going to find out – well, not here anyway.”

In the house beefy Alex also said he had never met her ex-husband Peter Andre – but that looks set to change.

He said: “I’d love to meet him. I am in somebody else’s life for the ­foreseeable future and their children are involved. It’s the only logical ­conclusion for ­responsible adults. I have nothing against him, he’s a great dad.”

Alex, meanwhile, was yesterday clearly eager to spend more “catch-up” time with Katie.

She whisked him back to her ­mansion in the early hours yesterday, and the couple later moved on to the five-star Pennyhill Park Hotel, a few minutes from Katie’s Surrey pile.

And after a five-day foreign break – perhaps to top up their tans – James Bond wannabe Alex hopes to rekindle his acting career… with help from his new Hollywood chums Stephen Baldwin and Vinnie Jones. “I have been given an amazing opportunity,” he said.

“I didn’t go into the house to network, I went in to show myself, but I have come out with all these amazing gifts.”

And he is even considering becoming a Christian like born-again Baldwin.

But he hasn’t turned his back on the fight game yet. The next bout for The Reidenator – dubbed Rocky by Vinnie in the house – is three months away.

Alex – who famously calls himself ­“trysexual” because he’ll try anything in the bedroom – is certainly going to have his hands full. Katie told pals she’s making their relationship “official” and letting him redecorate her house.

“Alex will be in charge of choosing designs for the gym and bedroom,” she told a friend. “They are his areas of ­expertise.”

Katie – who bombed on last year’s I’m A ­Celebrity… – has failed to ­reinvent herself.

But she has claimed Alex’s Celebrity Big Brother triumph as her own, ­claiming that it was her idea – “like a scientific experiment”.

She bragged: “I make all the men in my life. I have the golden touch. I’m over being alone. I want someone in my life and that ­someone is Alex. Watching him on telly and not being with him has turned me crazy for him – more than any man alive.

“Alex is, maybe, naive and he’s been used as a pawn like I have been – ­together we make a great team.”

She has even talked of marriage. “I want to be Mrs Reid,” she said. “Alex is such a great father figure – he’s a natural and treats my children as his own. Junior adores him.”

And so, it seems – for now at least – do the British public: 65 per cent of Celeb Big Brother fans, anyway.